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I’ve been trying to have lucid dreams and enter the void for 7 years, and I’m starting to lose my patience. I don’t understand—I’m doing the same things as people who have 100 lucid dreams in a year, but my results are always disappointing. Tonight, I even turned off my alarm for WBTB and fell back asleep. Instead of waking up to a morning like this, I’d rather not wake up at all.

I keep a dream journal regularly. When I wake up in the morning, I stay still and try to recall my dreams. Before going to sleep at night, I set the intention to remember my dreams. But I don’t remember anything. Sometimes I recall small fragments during the day, but other than that, I remember nothing. How can I fix this?

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I set an alarm for 3 a.m., but I woke up naturally at 1:40. My goal was to stay awake for 30 minutes, then do SSILD and go back to sleep—and that’s what I did. I stayed awake for 30 minutes, drank some water, and went to the bathroom. Then I did SSILD and tried to fall asleep, but I couldn’t sleep for 3 hours. When I finally woke up later, I didn’t remember any dreams. How can I fall asleep quickly after WBTB?

I set an alarm for 3 a.m. and had a really hard time waking up—I snoozed it like five times, but eventually I got up. I took citicoline, drank some water, and went to the bathroom. Once I made sure I was fully awake, I lay back down and started doing SSILD. Normally, I can’t complete SSILD because my focus keeps drifting, so this time I counted while doing it and gradually increased the duration of each cycle.

Then I turned over and tried to fall asleep, but it was really hard. After a while, I woke up and started complaining to myself like, ‘Ugh, I took the supplement for nothing.’ Then suddenly I remembered that SSILD can cause false awakenings, so I thought, ‘What if this is a dream?’ I excitedly looked at my hand and realized it was a dream.

But then my sister, who was sleeping next to me, suddenly sat up and shouted in a terrifying voice, ‘Yes, this is a dream!’ Her face looked really scary. I got frightened and immediately covered my eyes with the blanket and started repeating void state affirmations, but I was really scared.

Then the dream changed. This time I was walking down a street with my brother. I knew it was a dream, so I wanted to sit down and meditate to enter the void, but my brother kept trying to take me somewhere and was holding my hand. It felt so real—I could feel the warmth of his hand. Since my brother is autistic and never makes physical contact in real life, it made me really happy that he was holding my hand in the dream, and I didn’t want to let go.

We walked for quite a while, but nothing really happened. Eventually, I let go of his hand, sat down somewhere, closed my eyes, counted to ten, and tried to do affirmations—but I don’t clearly remember what happened after that. I just know I didn’t enter the void.

The sad part is that because I couldn’t sleep properly at night, I was late for school in the morning. So I started thinking maybe I should only try this on weekends, but at the same time, I want to enter the void as soon as possible.